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I was thinking about this recently. A lot of people don’t include guns in their games because they don’t feel medieval, while also ignoring fire arrows, thundercrash bombs, hwachas, nest of bees, fire lances, hand cannons, and other early gunpowder weapons that were around in the Middle Ages. I...

Then this practice would be more common in areas with diamond mines, or the community would pool their resources to buy one, or the diamonds would be provided by the Bards/Clerics in exchange for something else (social/political status, other goods, etc). I was simply giving a single example...

Many of the more successful missionaries in history were the ones that were viewed as miracle workers. Many people converted to a different religion because it was viewed as being more effective or successful than their old one. If an outside invader of a different religion conquers a different...

This video is long, but informative and thoughtful. We live in a very secular world today. Many people, even those that are religious, think of church as something you go to once a week. It is rare for it to influence the everyday activities of people. I know this because I was raised in a...

Huh. Tieflings are descended from the ruling dynasties of the first civilizations in my setting. I must have accidentally reinvented something 4e did. Again.

I am just as tired as everyone else of the endless cycle of reboots and sequels that have been plaguing Hollywood for decades, but remaking media by adapting or stealing from older stories is often a good thing. Do you not see any irony in your post in a discussion about D&D? D&D shamelessly...

Grimdark is not an entirely useless genre, but nihilism is entirely anathema to why I love, consume, and create fantasy media. Too many people and writers think grimdark means “no one can ever be happy, nothing matters, and any character that is momentarily happy or cares about anything...

I do not think mustaches are a “theme.”

Are mustaches one of the major themes of Dragonlance?

Basically everyone that was in the D&D leadership when that statement was made has since left WotC. Including Kyle Brink, who made the statement about Dark Sun being too problematic to bring back.

Thanks for the correction. I do not own Oriental Adventures, I had just heard that criticism of it before and thought it was illustrative of something to avoid when worldbuilding cultures. I don’t know much about Mystara, but the little I’ve heard made me hesitant to learn more about the...

These are the two D&D adventures I’ve created and ran that I’m the most proud of: An MKUltra adventure where the party has to shut down the mind-control experiments, rescue the victims, and kill Ted Kaczynski’s ghost. An adventure taking place in a magical underwater laboratory built on...